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...political implications of all this are immediate, they seize upon one's own condition; Marxist artists, especially those working in Eastern Europe, have realized how rooted their collective sensibility remains in a long history of revolution. Even the means of composition have been transfigured by these dramas; when Hungarian poets in prison, denied their simple tools of pen and paper, continue to write by repeating the lines to themselves in an unceasing litany, it becomes difficult to talk about poems as if they were anything other than prayers. Richard Gilman, discussing the "Poor Theatre" of Grotowski, argued in New American...
...winter. The airlines fly regardless of the weather at their destination and frequently have to detour to other cities in order to land. One recent Bulgarian Balkan Airlines flight, destined for Vienna, set down in Budapest. The pilot disappeared, the agent said it was his day off, and the Hungarian airport staff declined to help the passengers. After eleven hours of negotiation, some passengers wangled transit visas and a car for the 160-mile drive to Vienna...
...final analysis," says Hungarian Film Maker Miklós Jancsó, "I find no solution to the problem of reconciling man's power with his freedom." Even so, Jancsó has made a singular struggle to come to grips with the problem in such epical films as The Roundup and The Red and the White. Using historical narrative and an elliptical style, he has developed a highly personal cinema for the avowed purpose of "killing all sentimental romanticism." In its place he has substituted a gray bleakness as background for his fables of political manipulation and moral subversion...
...Marion started to fence when he was sixteen years old in his home town, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. At that time, Colonel Rudolf Cwetko, an Austrio-Hungarian fencing master, was associated with the club, and Edo became his student...
...Information Agency. Rowan now writes a thrice-weekly column carried by 150 newspapers. As a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Rowan made a reputation covering civil rights, later received assignments on major nonblack stories. He covered Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the Midwest and the Hungarian and Suez crises...